Business IEF2013: Silicon doctoring at Imec

Business IEF2013: Silicon doctoring at Imec

2013/10/04

Putting medical quality data in consumers’ hands is a key research area of Imec, Jo de Broeck, CTO of Imec, told the IEF 2013 meeting in Dublin.

As with most things chip-based, the technology scales. In 2001 it cost $1 billion to sequence a genome, said de Broeck, now it costs $100.

Imec is working with Pacific Biosciences to develop ICs for single molecule sequencing applications.

Sequencing is becoming a diagnostic tool for applications like early cancer diagnosis, therapy monitoring and surgery monitoring.

Sequencing requires massively parallel sequencing technology for ultra-deep sequencing which delivers answers in hours.

The prize for succeeding in this area is huge cost savings for governments. The USA spends 17.4% of GDP on healthcare, Europe spends 9.6 % and Japan spends 8.5%.

“Reducing diabetes and hypertension levels by 5 % would save $9 billion annually,” said de Broeck.

The worldwide cost of treating diabetes is $400 billion a year and the cost of treating heart disease is $1.6 trillion.

Imec is also developing neuroprobes for measuring neuro-degenerative disease. Here performance is doubling every seven years, said de Broeck.

The hunt at Imec is to understand Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Depression, Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, Anorexia, Blindness, Deafness and Strokes.

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